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What is environmental health

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The theory and practice of assessing correcting controlling and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations

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What are the five different aspects of environmental health

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  1. Relationship between people and environment
  2. Systems-based, ecological approach
  3. Others focus on environemtnal conditions, controlling hazards or health-promoting environments
  4. chemical and physical hazards
  5. Social and built environments
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What is the naylor report

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Preparndeness are practiced by progessionals in our community espiclaly in relation to emerging infectious diesease, globalization and bioterrorism
Provides a frameowrk fo renewal of public healthh

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What started the Naylor Report

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The SARS crisis in the early 2000s

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What is VBD

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Infections that are transmitted to humans through the bite of an inficeted arthropod such as mosquito or tick

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What diesease come form mosquito

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West nile virus
Eastern Equine Enchpalitis
Zika

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What diseases come from ticks

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Lyme disease

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What is in an important factor of VBD

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Amplification factor

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What is the West Nile Virus

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Recognized in Africa in 1930s
Circulates between birs and bird-biting mosquitos

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What are bridge vectors

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Species of mosquitos that transmit the virus from birds to humans or horses

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When was west nile first decteted

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New york 1999 and spread across most of North America

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When did WNV become of public health significance in Ontarion

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2003

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Is WNV a serious disease

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Only for some of the population 80% are asympompatic and even smalelr of the population has inflammation of the brain and brain stem usually in immunocomporised and older people

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What else effects the WNV

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Climate and weather dependent dry summer fewer mosquitos in general hot wet summer more favourable for mosquitos

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What year is always higher for ammount of disease

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The first year because we do not know what we are dealing with

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What are some aspects to understand when framing this problem

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Nature of the condition - Potential or available test - alternative policy option
Risk to blood supply
Zero tolerance - precautionary principle
Cost of doing something vs not doing something

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What is the precautionary principle

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The idea that if people are harmed and you didn’t do anything you could get sued so you do something about it and try and reduce the ammount of harm

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What is the rio declaration 1992 Pirnciple 15

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In order to protect the environment the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilites. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for posponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation

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What are the 5 precautionary principle principles

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Proportionality
Non-discrimination
Consistency
Examing costs and benefits
Subject to review

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What is proportionality

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You don’t want to kill a fly with a hand grendae it is proprotional to people that are not harmed

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What it is non-discrmination

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Comparable situations should be treated in the same way unless there are grounds for doing so

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What is consistency

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Measures should be of comparable scope/nature that are already taken and if it works then you can apply it

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What is examing costs and benefits

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Comparing costs of actions and lack of action in both the short and long term not just an economic cost-benefit analysis

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What is subject to review

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In light of new scientifc data you take all measures possible but as you learn more it starts to change

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When is the precuationary principle accepted | By the population
Typically supported by the population when the hazards are well established and understood by the population when there are gasps it can be convertisoral
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Whaat is risk management science
The systematic scientific identification evaluation and prioritzation of risks of adverse health effects resulting from human or environmental exposure to hazardous agents or situations and the economical application of resources to minimize monitor and control the probality and or impact of the adverse events Data is constantly evaluates risks are stratified and costs are considered Not always the obvious thing Prevents the risk from becoming a hazard Some cases we can not get ourselves away from the risk
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What is part of the risk characterization
Site-specific information Hazard identfication Toxicity assessment Exposure assesment
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What are risk managment options
No further action Emission control Exposure control remidation ( cleaning up the hazard) Public Policy Risk communication (This is determined because of evaluation)
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What is apart of the failure models and effects analysis
Steps in the process Failure modes (what could go wrong) Failuire causes (why would the failure happen) Failure effects (what would be the consequences of each failure)
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What is failure models | Proactive or reactive
Proactive
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What are never events
Incidents or events called never event these things hsould never happen in health care so you have procedures to prevent never events (operating on the wrong limb)
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What is FMEA
A way to proitize what to choose you want to deal with things that are severe and have a high occeurence could be less severe but have a high occeurence so you want to deal with it Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
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What is the krever commission
Public inquiry federal level that managed the threat of Hepatits C and HIV via lood traunfusion to make sure that this never happened again Reformed blood system has a success how it keeps us safe
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What caused the krever commission
Largest health catastrophe in Canadian history 1000 HIV and 30 000 Hep C via tranfusions in the late 1970s and 1980s
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What are the two aspects of the report that were espically important
Precautionary measures and creation of a goverance system that priortizes safety
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What are the difference between krever and naylor report
Naylor report examined the reactions to SARS krever was on the blood system so different public health issues Naylor report looked at existing allocation of resobonsibilities of the goverment in health care
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What is public health a concern for
Primary a provincial concer although it is actioned at the municipal level
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What is fedral goverment responsible for
Authority to legislate aspects of public health over matters related to the maintenace of peace order and good goveremnt including quartine provisions and national borders and trade and commerce an interporvincial or international level
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What did the Naylor report do with public health renewal
Focused on cordianation of the public level there is more money that flows more downard to deal with issues restruces and refines how public should work in canada
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What is trade off
Many different diseases we could tackle there are not enough resources to accomindate them
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What is true cost
What you give up to get it
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Whos costs are included
Hospital Health care system healthcare payer health system ( costs in health and other sectors; transportation, social services) Societal (all costs, inclduing patient costs) Externalities
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What are the three aspects of cost
Direct Indirect - lost wages Intagngible - pain suffering or opportunity
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What is economic evaluation
The compartive analysis of alternative courses of action in terms of both their costs and consequences
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What is opprotunity cost
We could have every program but usally we dont have the money to spend on all these programs we have to give up other programs
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What are factors of economic evaluation
Always compartive at least tow options are compared Always involves costs Each type measures consequences or outcomes in different ways
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What is cost utility
You can compare three different types but focuses on value of life and the consequences
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Can be opportunity cost be a conseqeunce value
YES
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What is standard of care
What we are doing now or the status quo
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What is cost analysis
How well does A work to B cost is the only difference
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What is cost effectivness evaluation
Uses natural units such as life years gained premature births avoided bang for buck it is a ratio
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What is the cost-effectivness plane
Comapare two health interventions along delta C change in cost and delta E outcome or your effects better as you go to the right the effects are better
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What is the best spot in cost effective plane
A because it cost less than the orginal and is more effective than E than D and third is C
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What is Cost utility Evaluation
Cost utility is using QALY and DALY
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What is Health Utility tool
Used for cost utilitiy 1 is perfect health and 0 is death How would you asses one year on the scale asking people who are healthy ask enough people the population as a whole one year and how they would feel with a condition
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What is cost benefit analysis
Compare all cost and all benefits and tries to assign a dollar value to all of these thing
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What are the issues of cost benefit analysis
Very comprehensive and diffuclt and ethical issues because assigning monteary values to life inherent biases also what makes a good life can varry CBA looks at maxmizing overall benefits which may overlook the eneds or rights of indviduals who are disproprotionately affected
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What is cost analysis | Ethical
Very utilitarian also takes into deontological

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